Building the Foundation Bibliography

This article summarizes the findings of a study conducted for the Harvard Business School Division of Research committee reviewing the Radcliffe Management Training Program and focuses on the level of demand for women in administrative positions.

This report is based on a 1952 study by the Harvard Business School Division of Research surveying the demand for women executives in the United States labor market and executives' attitudes about the expanding role of women in business.

Responding to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Harvard Business Review undertook a broad survey of the attitudes of 2,000 successful executives—half male, half female—toward the role of women in upper levels of management.

Alumnae of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration constituted a pool of 1,200 subjects which Radcliffe Institute researchers drew from in their studies of women interested in developing careers and marketable skills in the period of 1938 to 1963.

This survey and working paper look at the career development of graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, taking into account obstacles to employment, salary, and levels of responsibility.

One of the first women to receive her MBA from HBS, Margaret Hennig co-founded the Simmons Graduate School of Management with Anne Jardim with whom she also co-wrote “The Managerial Woman”. A study of successful women executives, the book became a New York Times bestseller.

Posing the "troublesome" question facing young women of the time—will graduate study in business be worth the time, money, and effort?—this study examines the experiences of the 664 graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration at the time of publication and concludes the answer to the original question is "yes."

While still a student in the first class to attend the Radcliffe College Training Course in Personnel Administration, Quick wrote this article describing the backgrounds of her four classmates, listing her professors, and explaining the curriculum and field work in detail.

This 1952 report evaluates the entire Management Training Program "experiment" after enrollment dropped, the deficit increased, and a review of "the whole curriculum, the philosophy, and the administration of the course" was necessary.

This catalogue describes the course as a practical education that coordinates theory and practice, including an analytical study of human behavior, coursework, and fieldwork. In addition to a partial list of course offerings, the catalogue includes admission requirements, tuition, fellowships, registration, calendars and living arrangements.

Associate Director of the Management Training Program from 1937 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1963, Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts presents a concise overview of the development and progress of business education for women at Harvard University from 1937 to 1963, including: a list of administrators; fieldwork; faculty, students, graduates, and alumnae; fellowships and other gifts; and advisory boards. It also features a brief references list.

Created in 1961 by an executive order from John F. Kennedy, the President's Commission on the Status of Women was formed to gather information on issues concerning women's rights. The Commission's issued its report on the status of women in 1963.